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Topeka-area residents will take time out to remember the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with special programs on Sunday and Monday, → Read More
Northeast Kansas residents hunkered down Friday to deal with an oncoming winter storm, which the National Weather Service predicted would bring the Topeka → Read More
A College Hill pizza eatery closed its doors this week, and the owner is looking for a buyer for the building. According to its Facebook page, the College → Read More
The Sunshine Connection, a drop-in center that serves people with mental-illness diagnoses, is hoping for a present this holiday season, but what they → Read More
Dozens of people stood on large piles of rocks, while others craned their necks, hoping to get the first view of steam from a last-of-its-kind locomotive → Read More
Community members will have an opportunity to get a firsthand look at Washburn Tech East when the facility has a fall open house this week. The event will → Read More
One person died of injuries sustained after the vehicle they were driving was T-boned by a car that was fleeing a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper Thursday → Read More
Military veterans and active-duty personnel can get their vehicles spiffed up for free on Veterans Day, thanks to a local car wash. Eagle Auto Wash & → Read More
Local authorities served 23 warrants and made 18 arrests Wednesday during a domestic violence sweep in Shawnee County, officials announced Thursday.The → Read More
Topeka police officials on Thursday announced the arrest of a man in connection with a pair of recent business hold-ups in the capital city.Police spokeswoman Gretchen Koenen said Victor A. Arellano, 21, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the Aug. 28 robbery of the Panderia Monterrey Bakery and the Aug. 29 robbery of the Ibannos Grill Food Truck.Arellano was booked into the Shawnee County… → Read More
A third person has been arrested in connection with a July homicide in southeast Topeka, officials announced Wednesday afternoon.The arrested man was identified as 22-year-old Lavonte D. Johnson.According to Topeka police spokeswoman Gretchen Koenen, Johnson was arrested Tuesday in Pine Bluff, Ark.Koenen said law enforcement officers, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service, located… → Read More
A Tuesday traffic stop in Shawnee County resulted in a half-million-dollar drug bust and the arrest of a 30-year-old woman, authorities said.The traffic → Read More
A Topeka man has been charged in federal court in connection with a bank robbery that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the capital city's downtown area, → Read More
A man who had been sought by police in connection with an Aug. 27 shooting that sent a woman to the hospital was captured Wednesday afternoon in East Topeka, authorities said.The man, identified as Don Eugean Jackson Jr., 44, of Topeka, was booked at 6:12 p.m. Wednesday into the Shawnee County Jail in connection with aggravated battery and two counts of criminal discharge of a firearm.Police Lt.… → Read More
At 91 years young, the Rev. Max Manning remains active in spreading the gospel through Topeka-based Global Missions Inc., an organization he founded in → Read More
In the middle of yet another thunderstorm during an August that is approaching a Topeka record for rainfall, Antonio Sumaya and his 5-year-old son Grant → Read More
The number of traffic fatalities resulting from drivers running red lights has spiked in recent years, with 939 deaths reported in 2017 across the United → Read More
CAWKER CITY — Paris is known for its Eiffel Tower.San Francisco has its Golden Gate Bridge.And Cawker City? Well, its claim to fame is its gigantic ball of twine.The world's largest, or so they say.Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people are expected to descend next weekend on this tiny town for its biggest happening of the year. And, you guessed it, the festivities will be centered on that giant… → Read More
As one of the few adherents of the Sikh religion living in Topeka, Daljit Singh Jawa has worked for more than four decades to bring people of different → Read More
Riley County police have arrested a 60-year-old Manhattan man in connection with a rape investigation, authorities said.The arrested man was identified as → Read More